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Updated: May 18, 2025
On the table at his elbow I had in reserve Faulty Play with the Brassy and a West Middlesex Directory. For myself I wandered about restlessly, pausing now and again to read enviously a notice which said that C. D. Topping's handicap was reduced from 24 to 22. Lucky man! At about half-past eleven the rain stopped for a moment, and we hurried out.
I slipped down a rope, and dropped into the boat, taking my place with a steering oar at the stern, and we shot away through the green water. The men yet lined the rail watching us enviously, although Watkins' voice began roaring out orders. Dorothy wraved her hand, which I acknowledged by lifting my cap.
Those who were not especially invited to attend went as far as the street or the gate, and looked on enviously. Mrs. Hattie had been very generous with her invitations, however. She said that she had asked everybody who ever pretended to go anywhere.
"By criminy, she didn't stick any closer to Old Heck than Skinny stuck to Carolyn June," Bert complained. "Nobody else had a look-in!" "Skinny's sure earning his money," Charley muttered half enviously. "Bet he's got on that white shirt and having a high old time right now!
In the meantime out of the wailing and whining and piping the sharp, clear-cut click of a telegraph instrument could be discerned. "That's the Morse code," explained Bob. "Some commercial station is sending a message. It seems to be about a shipment of lumber and isn't particularly interesting." "I suppose you can read it," said Dick enviously. "Naturally. That is part of my job, you know."
They returned the Marchesino's stare with vigorous impudence as they swung by. "What sympathetic creatures!" he murmured. "They are two angels. I believe I have seen one of them at the Margherita. What was her name Maria Leoni, I fancy." He looked enviously at the young men.
They took up a part of the piazza that was yielded them by common usage, and sat watching the hop inside, not so much enviously, I thought, as wistfully; and for the first time it struck me as odd that they should have no part in the gayety. I had often seen them there before, but I had never thought it strange they should be shut out.
You see, thirty pounds is a devil of a lot of money for poor people. As one mother of a large family said to me, 'With that one could bury them all quite beautiful." "You're a wonderful fellow," said I, somewhat enviously. He gave an awkward laugh and tugged at his beard. "I've only happened to find my job, and am doing it as well as I can," he said. "'Tisn't very much, after all.
Throughout their discussion he was conscious of little drops of perspiration threading their way down his naked spine, and he longingly savored the coolness of the stream-bank on which Andra reclined, a mile or two to the south. In good-humored exasperation he commented enviously on woman's lot and drew a dry rejoinder from a chance traveler on the highway to the north.
Christopher thought of the sea by day, and dreamed of it by night, and was already planning when he grew up to go in search of some of those strange adventures the old bronzed mariners were so fond of describing. The boy's mother and father kissed him good-bye, and his younger brothers and sister looked at him enviously as he left them with a wave of his hand and went on board the ship.
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